Pain is something we associate in negative ways. The experience of a person passing away is often described as “painful” for those remaining behind. The person might have also experienced pain in the (very brief) process of passing, and / or that pain is central to a set of cause and effect that led to the passing away.
The more and the longer a person suffers from pain, they might reduce contact with others, slowly becoming a recluse. Or they don’t do that, and somehow “put down” the pain element while in the midst of others, e.g. during working hours. This suggests that pain is one element that plays a part in the “recluse” activity, of either methods above. By many implications from the Bible, such pain becomes no longer relevant (or felt, or acknowledged as significant) in afterlife.
The experience of pain can be other-worldly.
Others could not comprehend the pain we are suffering and going through, or at least we think they don’t. The spectrum of pain is such that we perceive pain forward and backward, how pain hampered our daily activities (backward glance), and that the next time we feel hungry it could be after the weekend we could have a full meal (forward glance). All in all, perhaps with varying degrees of “imagination”, pain can be all-encompassing of who we are. That, we are operating in a dynamic, multi-dimensional environments.
Putting a few themes together, then, is a suggestion that we can think about ourselves existing in a world where some of it we don’t in fact know, we don’t feel about, and a combination of varying degrees of either. It is dangerous to make major conclusion from a few observations with no rigorous testing. What is said here is subject to tests. How much readers put on the soundness of the points here is also a reflection of how much each of us is aware of such “other worlds”, at least that of feelings that are non-tangible and free of space-time.
